Bernard Laporte’s club tournament idea could be rugby’s peace pipe
08 April 2020 - 16:26
While the world is in Covid-19’s deadly embrace‚ I initially could not decide whether French Rugby Federation president Bernard Laporte’s revolutionary idea was him smoking Gauloises on behalf of the bourgeois‚ or his socks.
Laporte, who is championing the formation of an annual World Cup club competition that will pit the best of the southern hemisphere‚ Europe‚ Japan and the US against each other has certainly grabbed everyone’s attention...
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